Some days don't you want to just blacklist all of .info? More spam there than anything else except maybe .com or .be, and certainly a higher percentage than any other top-level domain. ¶
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drmike | July 12th, 2006 @ 5:32 pm |
Agreed but I have too many clients of mine that use them. Heck, they’re still cheap. I can get renewals on them for two bucks with my registar for a year. I have a couple of hundred of them. Maybe someday I’ll actually use them.
Eddy Luten | July 12th, 2006 @ 5:48 pm |
True and sad, the TLD isn’t used for what it was created. Wouldn’t it be nice to have some kind of International Internet Law?
Kyle Korleski | July 12th, 2006 @ 6:05 pm |
You know, truer words were never spoken.
Wait, haven’t you forgotten .ru?
Josh | July 12th, 2006 @ 6:06 pm |
I might have said:
“…certainly a higher percentage than any other so-called top-level domain.”
Richard | July 12th, 2006 @ 6:16 pm |
I filter out .info sources in my PubSub feeds.
Ken Walker | July 12th, 2006 @ 6:58 pm |
Wow, that would really suck. If only I had known…
Patrick Havens | July 12th, 2006 @ 6:59 pm |
I will admit to owning a .info domain too (http://ivant.info) but it seems a lot of my spam is coming from .ru and .pl so I haven’t noticed huge amount from .info. I’ve been blocking most email from .kr for a while because of spam…
Scott | July 12th, 2006 @ 8:14 pm |
Can’t wait to get my .xxx domain finally regestered.
CarLBanks | July 12th, 2006 @ 8:44 pm |
My blog is on a .info domain…
Allen | July 12th, 2006 @ 9:45 pm |
I use a .be for my blog (which is not spam), but only because it’s free.
I agree with Kyle about the .ru though.
Pujiono | July 12th, 2006 @ 10:00 pm |
I can get .INFO for free for every hosting package I bought. This is why most of .info are useless site. Sigh…
Domas | July 12th, 2006 @ 11:50 pm |
Heh, well, I thought I want to register one domain, then I found out that only .info from gTLDs was available, and somehow immediately I rejected the idea. Not because of any opinion on .info general content, but simply because it sucks. Who would ever want a website with .info attached?
Ajay D'Souza | July 13th, 2006 @ 12:10 am |
Blocking .info is not attacking the cause, but actually treating the symtoms.
Nico | July 13th, 2006 @ 1:20 am |
Really, .be? I’ve never noticed that. Being a Belgian citizen, living abroad, I think that’s quite funny, disturbing and bizarre at the same time.
Neil T. | July 13th, 2006 @ 1:31 am |
I own a .info domain (needssome.info) – it’s mostly just used for sites that I host on behalf of other people. I know that my email filters don’t look favourably on .info and .biz domains.
Paul | July 13th, 2006 @ 2:23 am |
I get a lot of comment spam for .info sites, but strangely enough most of my email spam comes from .biz. I wish spammers would be consistent across all mediums.
alex_t | July 13th, 2006 @ 3:14 am |
Kyle, .ru is a domain of country with several millions of valid users – you can’t compare it to .info (stupid marketing joke of domain).
Jason Hoffman | July 13th, 2006 @ 4:22 am |
In http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1744408,00.asp has “TextDrive took other steps besides blocking comments. Hoffman had noticed that the bulk of comment spam was coming from .info domains, so TextDrive for a short time blocked all referrals to .info. Later, it created its own blacklist of .info sites to ban from sending comments to blogs.”
So yes, sometimes.
senthilnathan | July 13th, 2006 @ 5:11 am |
This is all about my history.
Neville Hobson | July 13th, 2006 @ 6:44 am |
Most of the spam I see (in the stopped-by-Akismet list
) is from .ru and .pl domains. Yet to see any from .be. Oh, wait, there’s an invitation…
59ideas | July 14th, 2006 @ 6:51 am |
.info is cheap and I believe .be and .ru are free?
It is a pity that cheap domains end up as easy throwaways for spammers.
Jason Cosper | July 14th, 2006 @ 9:42 am |
*sigh* I hate that a bunch of jerks have to ruin things for the rest of us…
Nils | July 15th, 2006 @ 12:00 am |
Of course, by blocking .info, you just make it harder for the people (like me) who run a legitimate site on a .info domain. You shouldn’t block content based on TLD; that’s taking the easy way out. There needs to be a better solution.
Sourabh | July 15th, 2006 @ 4:36 pm |
I think it has a lot to do with the fact that these .info domains were very cheap before. Most domain registrars even offered a 1 .info domain free with a one top level domain and later on it costed equivalent to other tld domains.
But agreed these domains are much of a nuisance and most of the spam on my site comes thru them :p
Mark Jaquith | July 17th, 2006 @ 3:46 am |
.biz and .info probably have the highest spam/ham ratio from what I’ve seen.
Nico | July 17th, 2006 @ 3:02 pm |
.be is free? That would be news to me! For those that don’t know, .be is the top-level domain for Belgium… I am willing to believe that some people see spam from .be (as from any other top-level domain), but I wouldn’t compare it to a commercial top-level domain such as .info…
Miraz Jordan | July 17th, 2006 @ 5:20 pm |
That’s extremely distressing. I have two perfectly legitimate sites on a .info domain – mainly because the .com domain name was already taken.
John Hoare | July 18th, 2006 @ 7:40 pm |
I have quite a few sites using .info.
Why? Because the important thing about them is that they share *information*. They aren’t a company. They aren’t an organisation. They aren’t an ISP. The *information* is the important bit.
So to answer the question above – “Who would ever want a website with .info attached?” – me. And it actually describes a hell of a lot of sites out there, that are using other TLDs. I wish it was used more often for good.
D'log | August 3rd, 2006 @ 5:14 pm |
I run a large WordPress blog on .info, 12,000+ unique visitors per month, been blogging on it regularly for years. For some reason it is difficult to get on the blog searches, but I recently e-mailed Sphere and they’ve added me on “by hand”. Apparently the default seearch-engine assumption is that anything on .info is rejected. Which is ridiculous, and shows the need for proper spidering, text-gathering and and evaluation.
Marc | September 8th, 2007 @ 11:35 am |
Well, I ran my blog on a .info site for several years, but now that my friend’s SpamAssasin flagged me for having a .info, that was the last straw and I just went and registered a .com domain.